The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 80
In those days Foreboding soon, like sorrow, passed away: Ailill next morning counselled; ‘Ere the night Cross we the Shenan.
Who acts: days · What happens: forebode, pass away, counsell · To what, where: sorrow
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 counselled | obl |
| 4 | Foreboding | forebode | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 days | acl |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 Foreboding | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrow | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 sorrow | case |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Foreboding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sorrow | acl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 13 | Ailill | ailill | ADV | _ | 15 morning | advmod |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 counselled | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cross | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ere | punct |
| 19 | Ere | Ere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Cross | amod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Cross | compound |
| 22 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 counselled | obl:agent |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Shenan | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Shenan | det |
| 25 | Shenan | Shenan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cross | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 counselled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forebode | gerund | that days not said here | like sorrow; soon property | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | pass away | participle | sorrow not said here | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | counsell | participle | day; morning | Ere night Cross obl:agent | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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